Memorial Coliseum has scheduled a two-day job fair next week to fill 50 to 75 seasonal jobs for the upcoming sports, concert and trade-show season.
The Coliseum announced Tuesday that applications for part-time, seasonal and event-based positions will be accepted from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 8 and from 4 to 7 p.m. Sept. 9 for jobs in the ticket office, parking lot, guest services, concessions, catering and food service, and other areas.
The part-time employees will primarily work Komets, Mad Ants and IPFW games, as well as concerts, trade shows and family shows.
Job seekers can go to the “Employment” page at www.memorialcoliseum.com and print and fill out applications before arriving at the event, if they choose. The Coliseum is an equal opportunity employer.
ITT lands contract for imaging satellite
ITT Corp. announced Tuesday it has received a $3.8 billion contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems to work on GeoEye-2, an Earth-imaging satellite.
Some of the imaging system work will be done at ITT’s Geospatial Systems Fort Wayne location. The majority of the work will be done in Rochester, N.Y.
ITT, based in White Plains, N.Y., has been working on items for GeoEye-2 since October 2007, under a separate contract. The 4,600-pound satellite is scheduled to be ready for launch in late 2012 and operational in early 2013. The satellite is expected to provide the world’s highest resolution and most accurate color imagery to government and commercial customers.
3M to buy maker of GPS tracker bracelets
Manufacturing conglomerate 3M Co. said Tuesday it has agreed to pay $230 million in cash for an Israeli company that makes ankle bracelets and other products used to keep track of people.
The deal marks the second technology company purchase in two days for 3M, which is increasingly stepping away from its Post-It and Scotch Tape roots in favor of technology that has allowed it to increase its business at a faster pace out of the recession.
The Israeli company, Attenti Holdings SA, makes products such as ankle bracelets that use GPS and radio frequency technology to track, for example, the movements of people on home detention and probation as well as patients in senior care centers.
The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter pending regulatory and other approvals.
Attenti has about 340 employees at locations in Israel, Australia, Bulgaria and the United States.
The deal comes a day after 3M said it will pay $943 million for Cogent Inc., which develops systems that read finger and palm prints and makes iris and face recognition systems.
Source: JPMorgan halting select trading
A source familiar with the situation says JPMorgan Chase & Co. is shutting down its proprietary trading desks and eliminating dozens of jobs to comply with new restrictions on investment banks.
The source spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because JPMorgan Chase isn’t formally announcing the move.
The regulations overhaul signed into law in July limits proprietary trading in which an investment bank trades on its own accounts for its own profit, rather than on behalf of clients.
